A delightful and courageous autobiography ... will move you to tears

I confess to having a large lump in my throat as I read Sheila Hocken's story. Touching and joyful

The year's most poignant true story

One of the most poignant works I have ever read. It is a beautiful book

With an enviable lightness of touch, Endersby weaves his scientific threads into a much broader tapestry of cultural history...[an] accessible and engaging account to find out how we got here.

A must for anyone even remotely thinking of getting a monkey, a sea lion, or, heaven forbid, a dog

A fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in nature writing

A lovely little book. After all we've done to them it's great to see the animals getting their own back

I wolfed it down

First-rate, unsentimental writing about nature and about the ways that human beings try to cope with the most terrible cruelties that nature offers up

Elegant and wryly funny

The most polymathic science writer of our time

An engaging and lively account of an endlessly curious man

A fascinating window into the complex emergent urban future. This book is an extremely sophisticated, often devastatingly witty and ironic, interpretation of what is possible over the next two decades

Throw out your old atlas. The new version is here

Kasarda ... and Lindsay convincingly put the airport at the centre of modern urban life

Highly recommended